1. Qualitative design: Ungraded review questions

2. Which of the following is true?
The purpose of quantitative study is for hypothesis testing only. Exploratory study is not allowed.
The purpose of qualitative study is for description only. Causal explanations are not allowed.
Qualitative research uses focus group.
All of the above

3. Which of the following is the commonly accepted criterion of good qualitative research?
External validity
Internal validity
Reliability
Credibility

4. What is the view of reality in grounded theory?
Reality is objective and the truth is out there to be discovered.
Reality is evolving. One can retrospectively reinterpret the past.
Reality is a result of social construction. Everyone makes up one’s own world.
All of the above

5. Ethnography is often used by
Anthropologists
Journalists
Cultural psychologists
All of the above

6. In ethnography how can you avoid bias?
Learn the native language of the culture under study.
Bring a team in which all team members have the same training.
Disclose your background and the objective of the study to the participants.
All of the above

7. What is the impact of Edgar Snow’s book “Red Star over China”?
Americans started to form a favorable view of the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Union.
At the middle of World War II Truman ceased supporting the Chinese Nationalist government.
Americans looked at Mao as a reformer and a hero.
All of the above

8. Which of the following is NOT a flaw of Margaret Mead’s Samoa's study?
She was not fluent in the native language and had to count on a translator.
She didn’t understand the culture and took what people said literally.
She wrote down what she heard but didn’t verify it using other sources.
She has a strong preconception inherited from her mentor Franz Boas (the nature thesis)